Evening Star Newspaper, February 22, 1932, Page 23

FARH BOARD URGED FOR VAR VETERANS Director of Employment Serv- ice Would Find Work for Disabled Men. Establishment of a “Farm Board ror‘ Veterans,” which would supply work on Government-owned farms and truck gardens for partially disabled veterans, is proposed by John A. Shaw, director of the Veterans’ Service Division, United States Employment Service, Department ©of Labor. The proposal was made after a Na- tion-wide survey of employment among | disabled veterans, conducted by the i United States Employment Service and | the Veterans' Administration. In his proposition, carried as a part of his report to the department on the | survey, Mr. Shaw says “Throughout the United States there are thousands of acres of land which have fallen into discard because its former occupants have listened to the call of the cities. While this move- ment has been caused in part by the | increased weages paid in industry, it | also has been caused in part by the fact the farm boys tired of the quiet, peaceful life of the farms, tired of that part of rural existence which would do most to make it possible for thousands of war-scarred overseas veteran does not have mental scars?—to return to normalcy. Would Organize Board. | “It is my firm belief that entirely | aside from its humanitarian aspect, it would be a well-paying investment for <he Government to organize a special Yarm Board for veterans to consider the edvisability of procuring title to Abese farms lands. adjacent to indus- trial cities in_order to be sure of a | market, and. after organizing the move- ment properly, to place on these farms disabled veterans who would thus be afforded an opportunity, under expert Instruction, to work at something which, while giving them an opportunity to be useful and self-supporting, will, at the same time relieve them of the neces- sitv of keeping pace with the mad race rercial industry. ital attitude of the veterans service is not bitter, Mr. nas interviewed thousands in ew vears, says. “They have the idea they are not wanted in indus- try any more. From the more than 150,000 replies we got back from our queries, we are able to estimate that per cent of all disabled vet- erans are without work and that 50 per cent of the disabled veterans who are willing and able to work are jobless. Fears Loss of Morale. “The picture unfolded in interviews and letters received in response to the qQuestionnaire was of a huge group of comparatively voung men, who want more than anything else, an oppor- tunity to work. They want to feel that they are producing something: that they are not men whose usefulness has been ended by the war. “T became convinced that unless the rank and file of these veterans are granted an opportunity to satisfy this want to be useful, their morale will disintegrate with the passing years. Their nerves, already worn thin in Pplaces. will ‘g0’ and before many years the Government will be expending many millions of dollars on hospitals and additional compensation checks.” These partially disabled veterans, e of them drawing $15 or $20 1y compensation from the Gov- ernment, actually are handicapped more than if they were getting nothing, he said. Employers invariably ask a vet- eran if he is getting compensation. If £0, they cut him off the list of possible applicants, not stopping to think that veterans—and what | Seeks House Segt FRAZIER OPPOSING JEFFERS IN ALABAMA. HUNT FRAZIER, Selma, Ala, is a candidate for Congress from the fourth Alabama district, op- posing Representative Lamar Jeffers. —A. P. Photo. WOMEN’S CLUB ELECTS Piney Point Organization Chooses Miss Anita Swann Chairman. Special Dispatch to The Star. | LEONARDTOWN, Md., February 22. | —Members of the Piney Point Rural | Women's Club met at the Lome of Jeanette Russell at Piney Point near here, and elected officers as follows: Chairman, Mrs. Anita Swann; vice chairman, Mrs. Vera Court; treasurer, Mrs. Ruby Bailey; secretary, Mrs. Beatrice Gors- key, and reporter, Miss Bertha Tray- lor, all of Piney Point. The next meeting will be held on | March 2 at 2 pm. at the home of Mrs. ' Anita Swann at Piney Point. . THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1932. AUSTRIAN EXPORTS DROP Unfavorable Trade Balance Reaches $10,000,000 in January. VIENNA, February 32 (#).—An un- favorable trade balance of more than $10,000,000 is shown in Austria’s export and import figures for January. In that month exports dro) to $8,700,000 while imports $19,- 000,000, this despite drastic foreign ex- change restrictions aimed at reducing imports. Another significant symptom was to- day’'s official announcement that because of increased smuggling of schillings abroad, the circulation of 1,000 schilling notes would be num}y curtailed. Notes of lower denomination, which sre more bulky and harder to smuggle out, will be substituted. Fire Burns Over 10 Acres. RIVERSIDE, Va., February 32 (Spe- cial). —A forest fire burned over ap- proximately 10 acres on the Berry place near here before it was brought under control by a detachment of 25 enlisted men from Fora Humphreys under com- mand of Lies?, Sykes, assisted by Deputy Forest Varden John Bayliss of Suydenstricker. An outbullding was burned. | QUALITY YOU CAN TRUST 8QuiBB ASPIRIN, like all other Squibb Products with which you are familiar, is pure, effective and reliable. The Squibb name is your protection. 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